On February 13th, 2021 with 48 comments
Scientific researchers worry that the capacity for spreading misinformation "goes far beyond the big-name social media sites," warns the Washington Post....
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On February 8th, 2021 with 152 comments
Facebook said on Monday that it plans to remove posts with erroneous claims about vaccines from across its platform, including taking down assertions that...
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On October 2nd, 2020 with 308 comments
Twitter told Motherboard that it will suspend people who openly hope Trump dies from the coronavirus, which he recently tested positive for and, as a result,...
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On July 29th, 2020 with 566 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: In a video posted Monday online, a group of people calling themselves "America's Frontline...
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On July 20th, 2020 with 74 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: So many of us do it: You get into bed, turn off the lights, and look at your phone to check Twitter one more...
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On June 8th, 2020 with 105 comments
This is the first story in a new occasional article series we're calling Slashback. We'll be covering a topic that may not be breaking news, but is interesting...
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On June 5th, 2020 with 96 comments
People want to help each other, even when it costs them something, and even when the motivations to help don't always align, a new study suggests. Phys.Org...
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On April 22nd, 2020 with 45 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Facebook has released a map showing the proportion of people who say they have experienced...
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On March 30th, 2020 with 36 comments
Scott Kelly, writing for The New York Times: Being stuck at home can be challenging. When I lived on the International Space Station for nearly a year, it...
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On March 26th, 2020 with 251 comments
"As governments around the world have pushed their citizens away from populated places to slow the spread of Covid-19, they may not have realized that they...
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On March 19th, 2020 with 169 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: On Wednesday, Twitter updated its safety policy to prohibit tweets that "could place people at a higher...
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On March 10th, 2020 with 36 comments
As COVID-19 spreads rapidly around the world, people are eager to keep up with developments at its epicentre in Wuhan, China. But government censorship,...
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On February 11th, 2020 with 43 comments
A viral myth from 2012 is recirculating on the web right now, claiming NASA said Monday was the only day you can make brooms stand up all by themselves,...
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On February 2nd, 2020 with 77 comments
"It's been almost a year since Instagram pledged to reduce the spread of vaccine-related misinformation on its platform. But today, it continues to do the...
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On November 1st, 2019 with 163 comments
Even as Facebook has cracked down on anti-vaxxers and peddlers of snake oil cure-alls, a particularly grotesque form of fake cancer treatment has flourished in...
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On June 1st, 2019 with 209 comments
"Russian Twitter trolls have attempted to fuel the anti-vaccination debate in the U.S.," reports CBS News, citing a study from George Washington University. ...
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On May 10th, 2019 with 156 comments
sciencehabit writes: Scientists have been studying the social intelligence of dogs -- how they evolved to communicate and bond with us -- for more than two...
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On April 27th, 2019 with 72 comments
The world's top asteroid experts are gathering on Monday, April 29 at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference in Washington D.C. to take part in a hypothetical...
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On April 11th, 2019 with 38 comments
"A growing cadre of neuroscientists is using sophisticated technology -- and some very complicated math -- to capture what happens in one brain, two brains, or...
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On March 17th, 2019 with 273 comments
Zorro (Slashdot reader #15,759), shares Reuters' report about Michael Sharpe, a medical researcher studying chronic fatigue syndrome, "a little-understood...
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